The captivating and sensual story of a woman who defies convention to make a new life-only to have her past catch up with her Orphaned by the death of her parents in a plane crash, Hebe bridles under the yoke of her strict grandparents. But when she returns from an Italian holiday pregnant-and overhears her family making plans for her abortion-she runs away. At nineteen, making her way alone in the world, all she has are her wits and her unswerving love for her unborn child. Fast forward twelve years. Hebe shuttles between jobs in order to pay for expensive schooling for her son, Silas. She juggles her various lovers . . . until the different parts of her life collide. As her past hurtles into her present, Hebe races toward a final showdown with a man who's been searching for his lost love.
